My name's Bond ... : an anthology from the fiction of Ian Fleming
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My name's Bond ... : an anthology from the fiction of Ian Fleming
（Penguin fiction）（Penguin books）
Penguin Books, 2001
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My name's Bond, James Bond : from the fiction of Ian Fleming
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"This anthology first published by Allen Lane The Penguin Press 2000"--T.p. verso
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Description
This book celebrates the greatest of all postwar British fictional icons. For too long the Bond films have overshadowed their literary source - the bizarre, baroque world of Ian Fleming. Full rein is given in this anthology to Fleming's wonderful creations - the deranged villains, their horrifying associates and their surreal lairs; from Dr. No's guano island to Blofeld's Garden of Death. Full attention to is paid to the girls, cars, food, drink and cigarettes consumed by the books' brutal, resourceful hero. From the first Bond novel, "Casino Royale" to the last to be fully finished, "You Only Live Twice", there is an extraordinary zest and ingenuity to Fleming's imagination and "My Name's Bond..." allows readers to see perhaps as never before the author's remarkable abilities. He was, above all, a creator of great set pieces and it is these that are surely at the root of the films' great and lasting success.
Table of Contents
- The man - he was good-looking in a dark, rather cruel way
- M - the frosty, damnably clear, grey eyes
- masterminds - the scale of a Caligula, of a Nero, of a Hitler
- killers - the sickly zoo-smell of Oddjob enveloped him. Doctor No's gift: weapons - a very flat 25 beretta automatic with a skeleton grip
- women - and who in heaven's name was Miss Pussy Galore?
- the housekeeper -a treasure called May. Inside the garden of death: foreign travel - this country of furtive, stunted little men
- sex - they were like two loving animals
- cars - his tyres screamed on the tarmac. Tatiana and Rosa Klebb: drinking - champagne and benzedrine! never again
- smoking - God, for a cigarette"
- eating -breakfast was Bond's favourite meal of the day. Dinner with Goldfinger: man talk - I used to throw scraps to her under the table
- nature notes - there was a horrible grunting scrunch
- dreadful events - prepare the blowlamp and the electrical machine
- key to quotations.
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